title: Privacy and biometric passports.
abstract: This work deals with privacy implications and threats that can emerge with the large-scale use of electronic biometric documents, such the recently introduced electronic passport (e-Passport). A brief introduction to privacy and personal data protection is followed by a presentation of the technical characteristics of the e-Passport. The description includes the digital data structure, and the communication and reading mechanisms of the e-Passport, indicating the possible points and methods of attack.
authors.affiliation: Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy. Ioannis.Vakalis@jrc.ec.europa.eu
authors.forename: Ioannis
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Vakalis
mesh_terms: D001699:Biometry; D016494:Computer Security; D018907:Privacy